By Iain Blair
How times have changed for indie films. Just a year ago, four of the five Best Picture nominees – Crash, Good Night, and Good Luck, Capote and Brokeback Mountain– were small budget films made outside the Hollywood machine, and where every dollar counted in bringing their creators’ visions to the screen. This year, […]

Hollywood lost one of the greats with the passing of Sydney Pollack who over the past 40 years established himself as one of Hollywood’s most reliable and successful directors, with such hits as Tootsie, The Firm, The Way We Were, and Out of Africa (for which he won an Academy Award as Best Director). But […]